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PLAYED FOR YOU u GREGS TAGEBUCH STINKEKÄSE / HOPPE REITER GREGS TAGEBUCH STINKEKÄSE PASS <strong>THE</strong> FINISH WITHOUT CHEESE 8� A well-known series of comics, originally intended for adults by the author, is the basis for this game with elements of creativity and communications. You choose a marker, the oldest player gets the Smelly Cheese. You move from start to �nish and complete di�erent objectives on the way; the active player always moves forward at completion of After a lovely day on the pasture the horses must be brought back to the stables, but on the way you must pick up all the items that are necessary for looking after the horses well. Each player is given a storage board for those items and places his horse on the pasture. In your turn you roll both dice: The red die shows the number of steps a task, sometimes the other players move, too. The color of the spot on which your marker starts the turn determines the objective: “Who says what” – you draw the top card from this stack and read it out, all others note down an answer; these are collected by another player and read out one by one, you must guess HOPPE REITER PICK UP HORSESHOES, WATER AND FEED! 3� the horse can move forward, the blue die indicates which item you can take and fit the corresponding puzzle part into your board. But unfortunately you cannot do both – you must decide if you want to move the horse forward or if you take an item and store it on your board. For this decision you must keep in mind that you are only al- who answered how; for each correct guess you advance one step, if you get al guesses wrong you take the cheese. “Yes or no?” works identically, but you do not write down the answer, the active player must guess every answer correctly, or take the cheese. “Two daft heads – one thought” – you must achieve correlation with the answer of one other player, or else cheese! “Make it so” – the active player gives a task to another player, which this player must implement according to the adjective on a card that this player then draws; the active player must guess the adjective. Event spots are simply implemented by the active player. If you reach the �nish �rst you win provided you do not hold the smelly cheese. Well-known standard mechanisms result in a nice mix together with the comics topic, which is a nice family game due to the rather simple objectives, because the better you know each other the better the game will work. � lowed to put the horse into its stable box when you have completely �lled your storage board. If you are �rst to reach the stables and can put your horse in the box you win the game. Based on these simple rules you can play three more games: in the easy version the rule for use of the dice is changed; you can use both dice simultaneously, when the board is full so simply cannot take anything anymore. In the hurdles variant the hurdles are placed on two randomly chosen spots, those spots must be jumped over. In the solo die variant you decide which die you want to roll in your move. As all Haba games this one too, fascinates by the simple basic mechanism and the attractive components, the di�erent versions allow a simple adjustment to the age of players. And you can get so nicely excited because the die doesn’t show the horseshow again and again when your horse is standing 2 steps away from the box. � INFORMATION Designer: Je� Kinney Gra�k: Je� Kinney, Mirko Suzuki Price: ca. 25 Euro Publisher: Kosmos 2011 www.kosmos.de EVALUATION Creative communication game For families Version: de Rules: de In-game text: yes Comments: Game based on Je� Kinney’s comics * Standard mechanisms * Nice mix of objectives Compares to: Other movement games with completing objectives and assessing fellow players Other editions: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cheese Touch, Pressman Toy Corp. Color codes, target groups, features, icons and GABIS are 28 ISSUE 434 / FEBRUARY 2012 explained on page 5 and at the bottom of pages 30 and 31 www.gamesjournal.at PLAYERS: 3-6 AGE: 8+ INFORMATION PLAYERS: 2-4 AGE: 3-12 Designer: Susanne Gawlik Gra�k: Stefanie Klaßen Price: ca. 17 Euro Publisher: Haba 2011 www.haba.de EVALUATION Race game For children Version: multi Rules: de en es fr it nl In-game text: no Comments: Simple basic rules * Variants allow age-adaption * Topic of interest for children Compares to: All race games with dicecontrolled movement Other editions: Currently none TIME: 45+ TIME: 10+
JAGDFIEBER CLOSED SEASON! DO NOT SHOOT! Players try to catch lots of pray with their hunting cards. Hunters shoot at wolves, wolves catch hares and hares eat carrots. At the end you score cards you captured and lose points for hunters active in the Closed Season and cards in hand. Each player holds one hunter, two wolves, three hares, three carrots, one carrot/ closed season card and a lodge. Kaispeicher is the �rst expansion for Die Speicherstadt. There are now new goods cubes for hemp, fabric and glass, 50 new trade cards that are marked for easier separation after the game, 2 break cards, one new worker per player and 2 grey workers as well as 25 metal coins. The new trade cards comprise 35 di�erent cards in total, from Or- The lodge is for storing captured cards and for separating easy pry from prey. You go hunting on four days, then you win with the highest score, A day of hunting starts with the „4“ on your lodge hidden and a complete set of cards. All choose a card and place if facedown above the lodge, then all cards are revealed and scored. If KAISPEICHER FISHMARKET, LORRY, ACCOUNTANT…. 8� 8� der to Insurance or Fish Market, from Theater to Teahouse and from Snitch to Truck, Smuggler or Rope Maker, who all turn up in the harbor now. The game is played in rounds as usual, comprising the phases Supply, Demand, Purchase, Loading and Income. For the Supply phase you place another row of cards above the WIN The Games Journal now also available as eBook! For all information on that check our website. JAGDFIEBER / KAISPEICHER t at least one hunter and Closed Season were played hunters are placed under their lodges and the player of Closed Season turns his lodge to show „4”. Without Closed Season and with a hunter you score starting at „The hunt starts here“; �rst a hunter shoots a wolf or goes home in hand, then remaining wolves catch hares and after that remaining hares eat carrots. Cards then still on the table or, when no hunter was played, all cards on the table turn into captured prey or easy prey according to exact instructions, easy prey is captured �rst in the next round. Jagd�eber is a nice game of collecting cards; players with a good memory have an advantage; after two or three cards you can play more tactically as either hunter or Closed Season are gone for some players. A Closed Season played early not only earns you the 4 lodge points but can maybe also eliminate one or two opposing hunters! Good fun with nice illustrations! � board, again number of players + 1 cards, so that there are twice as many cards available as in Die Speicherstadt. In the Demand phase you can place a worker into a building spot as usual or use him to reserve a card in the upper display. In the Purchase phase you �rst deal with the water spot cards, then the reserved cards are offered; the cost for a reserved card, if you want to buy it which you need not do, is equal to the number of reserved cards in the row. When using Kaispeicher, the fixed income per round is 2 coins plus 1 coin if you did not acquire any trade card. Kaispeicher, due to the double number of cards available from Supply, o�ers an impressive and large range of choices for new action without changing the basic �ow or feeling of the cards; the expansion thus melds into the game very easily. Kaispeicher is a harmonious, very beautifully done and very elegant expansion, easy to play, the only heaviness in the expansion is provided by the classy metal coins. � INFORMATION EVALUATION Card game For families Version: multi Rules: de en In-game text: nein PLAYED FOR YOU Designer: Stefan Zlatintsis Gra�k: Tu Peishu, W. Wortmann Price: ca. 14 Euro Publisher: Smiling Monster 2011 www.smiling-monster.de Comments: Topic and mechanism �t well together * Closed Season is a nice detail * To play Closed Season early could be a valid strategy Compares to: Other card games with step-by-step scoring of remaining card Other editions: Hunting Fever at Swan Panasia www.gamesjournal.at ISSUE 434 / FEBRUARY 2012 29 PLAYERS: 3-5 AGE: 8+ INFORMATION PLAYERS: 2-5 AGE: 8+ EVALUATION Expansion For families Version: de Rules: de en In-game text: nein TIME: 30+ TIME: 90+ Designer: Stefan Feld Gra�k: Michael Menzel et al Price: ca. 17 Euro Publisher: Eggertspiele/Pegasus 12 www.eggertspiele.de Comments: Die Speicherstadt needed to play * New choices without many changes to the core game * Easily integrated into the core game * Beautiful metal coins Compares to: Die Speicherstadt and other bidding games Other editions: Englische Ausgabe
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